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Trivia » Post #17

Sun Oct 04, 2015 14:09 in General Talk

10^320236 + 10^160118 + (137×10^160119 + 731×10^159275) × (10^843 − 1)/999 + 1 is the largest known palindromic prime number. This number is so large that if you started to write it in long form, you wouldn't be finished for quite a while, and might even lose track of how many digits you have written. A number being palindromic means it remains the same when it's digits are reversed. Humans cannot reverse their digits, though they can have some increase in flexibility if they are double jointed. They also have reversible clothing, but only numbers have true reversible digits.

10^150006 + 7426247×10^75000 + 1 is the largest known happy palindromic prime. A happy number is a number where you can replace the number by the sum of the squares of it's digits until the number equals one. If a number doesn't resolve to 1 in this manner it is called an unhappy, or a sad number. Scientists don't understand why this makes a number happy or sad yet, because to date, they have been unable to find a number with a nervous system at all!

How to drive traffic to my blog/website? » Post #5

Sun Oct 04, 2015 09:24 in General Talk

Would you read a blog about how to earn money from a website you're not even a member of?

That's something you give to people after they've joined.

How to drive traffic to my blog/website? » Post #3

Sun Oct 04, 2015 08:44 in General Talk

Write lots of posts, and be interesting.

My most popular posts of all time are rants about happy people, the lack of an RS232 Serial Interface on modern computers, and beautiful Asian women who think you're "cute". Relatively mundane subjects, but I rock written with so much heartfelt bile and hatred that people can't help coming back for more, and sharing it with all their friends.

If you want traffic to your blog, you just have to write a blog worth reading.

Quote of the day » Post #1932

Sun Oct 04, 2015 07:37 in General Talk

Quote:Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.

-- Linus Torvalds

smokers die younger » Post #2

Sun Oct 04, 2015 05:15 in General Talk

But they also pay more towards the NHS and by virtue of dying sooner, cost it less, so one should refrain from smoking personally while encouraging everybody else to smoke.

My laptop is suddenly really slow » Post #24

Sat Oct 03, 2015 17:06 in General Talk

Go to "Computer" in your start menu. Find the disc called c:. Right click and select properties. One of the tabs will tell you how much space is being used. I don't know which tab, I don't have a Windows box of my own to check.

My laptop is suddenly really slow » Post #22

Sat Oct 03, 2015 16:44 in General Talk

It depends how much disk space you're using. Two seconds per megabyte is the industry threshold before we call it a performance issue for server software(*). However, the first run can take much longer, since it doesn't clean any nasties until the end, so any you have resident will affect the performance of your anti virus/malware/whatever just as much as they affect the rest of your computer. For the desktop it's probably a bit slower - 3/4 seconds per megabyte is probably acceptable there, but I'm guessing.

(*) For regular readers who know I use Linux/BSD, we still have to scan for Win32 viruses because we have Win32 end users.

Quote of the day » Post #1930

Sat Oct 03, 2015 13:51 in General Talk

Quote:I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

-- Every woman who ever created a dating profile in the entire history of mankind with the genuine, but utterly delusional belief that she is being original. And also Marilyn Monroe, who was actually being original.

datewise post » Post #2

Fri Oct 02, 2015 20:19 in General Talk

No they shouldn't. That's called top posting. Top posting is a criminal offence, and morally wrong. Anyone who does it angers god, and every time you do it, an angel loses it's wings.

(I'm assuming you've got that backwards - "order by date asc" will give you what we have now).


Edit - though you did give me a brilliant idea, and I've just added an optional order by rand() setting to my own blogging software, which will display comments in a random order.

What music/song are you listening now? » Post #806

Fri Oct 02, 2015 17:31 in General Talk

Work is doing my nut. When work does my nut, I come here and do a survey or something - at least they do your nut in a different way. But it's weekend, and there are no offers, so instead, I'm playing 1980's Classic Everyone's A Wally. The advantage of playing 1980's computer games on a 2015 computer is you can play the B side of the tape, while playing the game saved on side A. Side B contains this: Mike Berry - Everyones A Wally [CBM 64, Spectrum, Amstrad.....] - YouTube

last two digits » Post #2

Fri Oct 02, 2015 08:50 in General Talk

That's just how counting works.

You have to add up the units before you get to the tens, the tens before you get to the hundreds, the hundreds before you get to the thousands, etc. Wikipedia has a great article on finite sets

(Also, I have no idea what you're talking about).

Trivia » Post #16

Fri Oct 02, 2015 06:08 in General Talk

You may have heard an increasingly vocal set of nationalists from most corners of the world going "We're full!", and "We're sinking", and other such nonsense. Actually, we could fit the entire population of Earth inside the M25!

Quote of the day » Post #1923

Fri Oct 02, 2015 04:56 in General Talk

Quote:Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

-- William Feather

Chit Chat, Poems, Jokes & Cakes » Post #125

Thu Oct 01, 2015 20:45 in General Talk

Quote:I think there'd be,
A lot of congestion,
If my body didn't,
Engage in digestion...

A series of tubes,
Like plumbers have pipe,
Lets my food move,
All day and all night!

Shove food in my mouth,
Chew with my teeth,
Add some saliva,
The juice it secretes...

It's swallowing time!
Down the esophagus!
Gets to the stomach,
Let's stay on top of this...

The stomach is churning,
Breaks up the food,
Adding enzymes and acids,
And sounding quite rude…

The food will move on,
Peristalsis will push,
The food will move on,
As it turns into mush...

Small intestine comes next,
Next organ for fun,
Nutrients absorbed,
And it’s almost all done...

Large intestine absorbs!
Removes excess water,
Before food's back out,
Just like they oughta…

Yes, there would be,
A lot of congestion,
If my body didn't,
Engage in digestion...

GT Distractions -- Time to check your Updates » Post #291

Thu Oct 01, 2015 17:46 in General Talk

With all due respect, you can't bolt on privacy to something actively hostile to it by design, with forced updates to revert and privacy hacks you add on anyway.

If you want privacy, you have to start looking at BSD, Linux, or even Mac (which is still evil, but in a different way).

Quote of the day » Post #1921

Thu Oct 01, 2015 13:39 in General Talk

Quote:I wouldn't mind having a look at that rule book, if that's not against the rules...

-- The Doctor

Quote of the day » Post #1919

Thu Oct 01, 2015 12:32 in General Talk

Quote:The dawn of time. The beginning of all beginnings. Two forces, only good and evil. Then chaos. Time is born, matter, space. The universe cries out like a newborn. The forces shatter as the universe explodes outwards. Only echoes remain, and yet somehow, somehow, the evil force survives. An intelligence. Pure evil.

-- The Doctor

OS X El Capitan » Post #2

Thu Oct 01, 2015 11:15 in General Talk

No, but I have used almost all it's open source components. Highlights are:

Apache now handles multiple connections as well as nginx (but still uses more RAM)
Bind, bash and Heimdal have numerous security fixes, one of them critical (but also rare and obscure).
Weird SNI issues in curl are fixed.
Dovecot is exactly the same as it always was as far as anyone can tell, but the config files changed
File has fixed the bug where it detects win32 icons as images (rather than extracting the icon), and burns all your RAM, until even your swap gives up. Also detects more of the obscure filetypes. Also plays better with the semantic desktop (if you have one in iOS, I don't know either way).
Nano updated for no particular reason, and replaced your tabs with spaces until you re-add your own config file.
openssh now uses bigger keys. This is a security fix for what won't be a security flaw for another couple of years.
A whole bunch of bugfixes in X11, though it breaks a few legacy graphics cards. The biggest impact is composting is less expensive, and your graphics card will run a tad cooler (and use slightly less electricity).

In short, assuming the bits we can't see are in a similar vain to the bits we can see, it's just a security and bugfix release.

Trivia » Post #14

Wed Sep 30, 2015 17:29 in General Talk

Anyway, I was trying to find some trivia about the world's longest bath. It seems nobody has recorded this, though there was some information about the length of baths (in size), and very short showers (in time), and even a few very optimistic people who thought their son going 29 days without a shower might be a world record.

What I did find, was completely unrelated, other than having the word "longest" in the description.

Quote:The longest time elapsed between a letter being posted and its delivery is 89 years. In 2008, Janet Barrett, a guest-house owner in Weymouth, Dorset, UK, received the letter – an RSVP to a Boxing Day party invitation, which had been posted on 29 November 1919.

The message inside read: “Dear Percy, Many thanks for the invitation, be delighted. See you on the 26th December. Regards Buffy,” and was delivered in a plastic bag with a note from the Royal Mail (the UK postal service) apologizing for any damage – but offering no explanation for the inordinately long delay.

Trivia » Post #13

Wed Sep 30, 2015 13:02 in General Talk

I met them a couple of years ago. My mate did the catering when Calendar (local news) did a bit on them, and I helped him out. I expressed my distaste that neither he (Mr Chand, not my mate) nor I had made it onto a recent list of "Greatest Living Yorkshiremen". He had no idea what I was talking about.
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